Ice XXI appears in a diamond anvil cell
Previously unknown ice phase exists at room temperature and pressures of 2 GPa
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How hot can you make a solid before it melts?
Superheated gold stays solid at temperatures far beyond the predicted "entropy catastrophe"
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Space ice reveals its secrets
Simulations and experiments indicate that the low-density amorphous ice found on comets and icy moons is not, in fact, entirely amorphous
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Liquid carbon reveals its secrets
Researchers characterize the structure of liquid carbon for the first time, thanks to experiments at the European XFEL
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Supercritical water reveals its secrets
New terahertz spectroscopy study puts to rest a long-standing controversy
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Strange metals get their strangeness from quantum entanglement
Physicists use the concept of quantum Fisher information to explain poor electrical conductivity in these unusual materials
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Superfluid phase spotted in molecular hydrogen for the first time
New finding confirms a prediction made more than half a century ago
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A breezy tour of what gaseous materials do for us
Margaret Harris reviews It’s a Gas: the Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik
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Physicists take the temperature of second sound
Results could have applications for studies of high-temperature superconductors and neutron stars
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Physicists observe false vacuum decay in a ferromagnetic superfluid
First experimental evidence of true vacuum “bubbles” could have implications for cosmology as well as condensed-matter physics
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